Picture No | 10652292 |
Date | 1939 |
Description | Last moments of HMS Courageous by G. H. Davis |
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The last moments of HMS Courageous after being torpedoed by a German U-boat: the crew abandoning ship in the failing evening light. The 22,500-ton aircraft carrier listing to port and settling down by the bows. The crew lowering the lifeboats and throwing rafts and wooden objects into the water.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 30 September 1939, pp520-1 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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